-When fluid-structure interaction involves slender or flat structures, it is interesting to apply reduced dimensionalty models (e.g. shells, or beams) to perform such computations. We coupled [MBDyn](https://www.mbdyn.org/) (an open source multibody dynamics software developed at Politecnico of Milan) to preCICE within a master thesis project, exploiting the C++ interface provided by MBDyn. We validated the set-up in the incompressible regime coupling MBDyn and OpenFOAM and comparing our results with the well-known Turek & Hron benchmarks, which proved to be challenging because of added mass instability issues. Some preliminary results can be found in the [thesis](http://hdl.handle.net/10589/175517), while an extensive validation has been described [in a conference paper](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352642167_COUPLING_MULTI-BODY_AND_FLUID_DYNAMICS_ANALYSIS_WITH_PRECICE_AND_MBDYN).
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